Smoke-Free Olympics-NOT

BEIJING - Beijing's first smoke-free restaurant chain faces going out of business after its customers deserted it in droves after the ban was enforced, state media reported on Friday.The Chinese people smoke. I find it interesting that a country communist country. A restaurant chain has lost about 80 percent of their business to other restaurants across the street" after it banned smoking in October. In spite of waitresses telling people not to smoke, customers would lock the staff out of rooms so they could smoke.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is promising a "smoke-free Olympics. The people are not cooperating. Beijing authorities have written to 30,000 restaurants asking them to put smoking bans in place, but not a single one had taken up the suggestion. read more
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